August 4, 2026 at 6:00 PM
The Clark County Planning Commission held a briefing meeting chaired by Edward Frasier III to discuss items on the August 4, 2026 Planning Commission agenda, new ordinances, and administrative items. Commissioners present: Edward Frasier III, Leslie Mujica (via teleconference), Steve Kirk, Vivian Kilarski, and Nelson Stone. Tyler Brady was excused, and Michael Roitman was absent. Staff presented each agenda item with recommendations.
Staff presented 10 items scheduled for the regular meeting:
Item 4 (Routine): Use permit for a private invitation-only esports and digital creation facility hosting video game tournaments and studio sessions with 20–220 attendees, 2–6 times per month. Staff recommended approval because activities would be contained within an office/warehouse building with no exterior activity. Town board recommended approval with conditions. There were 3 protest cards and 7 protest letters, 7 of which came from the neighborhood to the north. No questions from commissioners.
Items 5 & 6 (Companion): Waiver of conditions (to allow a different tree type and spacing in the rear landscape buffer) and a use permit for light manufacturing, outdoor storage, and various waivers for parking, residential adjacency, and buffering. The applicant remanufactures automotive steering components and needs outdoor storage. Staff recommended denial due to lack of screening and buffering near residential uses to the east. Town board recommended approval. There was 1 support card, 2 protest cards (for item 5), 1 protest card (for item 6), and 1 protest letter. Commissioner Kilarski sought clarification on the relationship between the waiver and the use permit; staff explained they are related because compliance with previous conditions is needed for the use permit approval.
Item 7: Waiver of conditions from a previous use permit to waive compliance with a traffic study and installation of school zone flashers on Desert Inn for a combined school and daycare use. Staff recommended denial. JaWaan Dodson from Public Works explained that the daycare use alone might not require flashers, but the school use does. If the waiver is approved, the applicant could start the school use without safety measures. Commissioner Kilarski expressed concern that the waiver would apply to both uses. Vice Chair Mujica agreed the issue should be heard at the regular meeting.
Item 8: Waiver of development standards for side setbacks for proposed accessory living quarters. Staff recommended denial due to self-imposed hardship and lack of site-specific conditions. Paradise Town Board recommended approval. There were 4 support cards, 1 protest card, and 1 protest letter.
Item 9: Waiver of development standards and design review for a new drive-through at Harmon Square. The applicant proposed adding a drive-through on the south side of the building, creating potential traffic conflicts. Staff recommended denial due to safety concerns. Commissioner Kirk noted the site currently has three drive-throughs (Dunkin' Donuts, White Castle, Smoothie) with counterclockwise circulation. Staff indicated a one-way west-to-east design might be preferable.
Item 10: Waiver of development standards for increased building height (26-foot pool house with outdoor deck, 5 feet from property lines) and a removed waiver for reduced setbacks for a balcony. Staff recommended denial due to lack of site-specific constraints. Lone Mountain CAC recommended denial. There were 1 support card, 4 protest cards, and 1 protest letter; two cards came from the adjacent subdivision to the east.
No public comments were made during the briefing.
Jennifer Ammerman, Deputy Director, announced three ordinance amendments to be introduced at the next Board of County Commissioners meeting and public hearing in September 2026:
Massage Establishments: Amend Title 30 to allow waivers of separation requirements (from residential and between massage establishments) via a use permit. This would return the waiver authority to the Planning Commission.
Daycare in Residences: Clarify that in-home daycare for 7–12 children in residential zones requires a special use permit, but without needing to meet all commercial development standards (e.g., trash enclosures). This follows about 28 cases where state licenses were issued without county permits, and recent board direction.
Communication Towers: Allow administrative approval for communication towers if all conditions are met (previously required a use permit). This streamlines approvals, especially on BLM land zoned residential. The change reverts to pre-2012 practice.
No votes or decisions were made. The briefing provided an overview of upcoming agenda items and ordinance proposals. The meeting adjourned at 6:13 PM.
Good evening. Chair Frazier. Here. Vice Chair Mohica. She's on the line. She's here. Commissioner Stone. Here. Commissioner Kirk. Here. Commissioner Kalarski. Here. Commissioner Brady. Excuse. Commissioner Ruiman. He is on the way. Not present. He's not present, but he is on the way. He'll be here shortly. Thank you. All right. Have having done roll call, we'll just go to the first item business, which is uh public comment. And um seeing no one in the audience and no one coming down to speak on any items, we will close public comments and we'll start the briefing. Go ahead. Mr. Chair, I just wanted to acknowledge that I'm on the I'm on the meeting. Yes, ma'am, we got you. Thank you. Thank you. Uh good uh good evening, Mr. Chairman, uh commissioners. Um as always, I introduce myself. Uh I'm Hunter White, and I'll be taking your uh everyone on uh the um our adventure of the planning commission tonight. Uh we have a total of 10 items. Uh we'll have uh one item on um uh root on the routine agenda with the remaining on the non-routine. So we'll go ahead and get started with that one routine item. That's gonna be item number four. It is a use permit for um a private invitation only esports and digital creation facility. Uh they basically host uh video game tournaments and studio sessions. They'll have about 20 to 220 attendees, uh two to six times per month. Uh staff is recommending approval essentially because everything's gonna be contained within the office where house building that it's gonna be in, and uh there's um not any exterior activity, and it's limited to its use. Uh town board recommended approval with a good list of conditions that uh are there in your briefing notes. Uh there were no cards in support. There were three cards in protest and seven letters in protest, with um seven of those ten being located in the neighborhood directly to the north. So that will conclude our routine agenda items. Does anyone have any questions? Uh thank you for that. Um, Commissioner Mohica, any questions on item four? No, no questions, thank you. All right, continue.